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Seminar: Market Access, Policies and Agricultural Transformation: Evidence Using Disaggregated Data from India
Speaker: Dr Digvijay Singh Negi, IGIDR, Mumbai Date & Hour: 25 September 2019, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Market Access, Policies and Agricultural Transformation: Evidence Using Disaggregated Data from India Abstract: Inter alia, diversification of agriculture in favor of high-return cash crops is considered an important pathway for sustainable improvements in agricultural productivity and agriculture-based livelihoods. In this paper, using highly spatially disaggregated data we study structural changes in Indian agriculture in terms of product diversification and commercialization…
Event DetailsSeminar – Can Referral Improve Targeting? Evidence from a Vocational Training Experiment
Speaker: Dr Debayan Pakrashi, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Date & Hour: 30 September 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Can Referral Improve Targeting? Evidence from a Vocational Training Experiment
Event DetailsSeminar – A Bioeconomic Framework for PES Programs Generating Multiple Environmental Services
Speaker: Dr Ram Ranjan, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney Date & Hour: 01 October 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: A Bioeconomic Framework for PES Programs Generating Multiple Environmental Services
Event DetailsSeminar : Uncertainty shocks and monetary policy rules in a small open economy
Speaker: Dr Sargam Gupta, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi Date & Hour: 03 October 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Uncertainty shocks and monetary policy rules in a small open economy
Event DetailsSeminar -Does Inflation Targeting help information transmission? Evidence from India
Speaker: Dr Shekhar Tomar, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad Date & Hour: 09 October 2019, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Does Inflation Targeting help information transmission? Evidence from India Abstract: This paper provides a novel evidence in favor of the informational properties of inflation targeting (IT) and document the attenuative effect of IT on financial market volatility. We evaluate the impact of the hard switch to IT by India in 2015 on the information transmitted to the markets through central bank policy announcements. We…
Event DetailsSeminar: Do the rich pollute more? Mexican household consumption by income level and CO2 emissions
Speaker: Prof. Angel de la Vega Navarro, Graduate Department of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, City, Mexico Date & Hour: 11 October 2019, 2:30 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Do the rich pollute more? Mexican household consumption by income level and CO2 emissions
Event DetailsSeminar: Personalizing financial solutions for informal sector customers
Speaker: Ms Sucharita Mukherjee, Kaleidofin, Chennai Date & Hour: 16 October 2019, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Personalizing financial solutions for informal sector customers Abstract: Customers working in the informal sector experience significant income and expense volatility in their lives, The volatility in income and expenses tends to be high at or about 45-50% each [1]. In addition, they are exposed to significant risks such as life, accident, health and natural catastrophes, however, are completely unprotected against such risks. The big problem we…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: Health Insurance and Infant Mortality: Evidence from India
Speaker: Dr. Anaka Aiyar, Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, USA Date & Hour: 29 November 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Health Insurance and Infant Mortality: Evidence from India Abstract: We estimate the impact of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national-level public health insurance program in India, on child mortality. In our analysis we combine information on the staggered rollout of RSBY across districts with detailed health information from over 200,000 households. Using a difference in differences approach,…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: Wage bargaining and product innovation: relevance of the preference function
Speaker: Dr Debasmita Basak, Nottingham University Business School, U. K. Date & Hour: 04 December, 2019, at 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Wage bargaining and product innovation: relevance of the preference function Abstract: Using the right-to-manage model of union-firm bargaining, which is commonly used in the literature, we show that a higher union power increases product innovation if the bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak, and the cost of innovation is low. Otherwise, the relationship between union power and innovation…
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